The Washington critic., 1887-06-08
THE COLORED CITIZEN.

At q meeting OF the Fern Leaf Social
Club Monday evening, held at the residence
OF Captain w. II. Lee, 1887 Twelfth street
northwest, the following officers were
eleeted W, II. Lee, president; j. IL. Wash
ington, vice-president; +. l.. Dodson, treas.
urer; l.. II. Livingston, secretary; Albert
Thomas, corresponding secretary.
Fifty coored school teachers will form
an excursion party to visit this city on the
ith Of July.
Miss Bertha Wall, the fifteen. .year-old
daughter OF Mr. and Mrs. Albert Wall, Is
lying dangerously III at their country resi-
dence, near Ivy City, with lung trouble and
heart disease.
There were twenty.slx colored men elected
TO different Offices at the recent elections In
Virginia.
1t is reported that Hon. John NJ. Lang.
stop, president of the Virginia Normal aud
Collegiate Institute at Petersburg, Va, is
soon to be superseded by another, much to
the regret OF the colored people.
The Baptist Sunday.school Union OF this
city is taking steps to establish free library
for the use OF the colored people. 1t also IS
making an effort to open Normal School
for the training Of Sabbath-school teachers.
The length OF course OF training ia to be
two years. The Union besides contemp plates
to advance these interests It will begin the
publication of a paper this month. Mr..
Alexander Hamilton is president OF the
Union.
A colored club at Boston, named after
Wendell Phillips, decorated his grave with
flowers on Memorial Day.
A number OF young lady admirers OF the
Washington Cadet Corps have formed an
organization, and will present the corps
tpft ata s,f - tl,
kind, as an evidence OF the appreciation OF
the citizens. This is In the wake OF the
treatment OF the white soldiers. Subscrip-
tions will be received aud published by the
Bee.
The Baptist Sabbath School Union has re-
Gently organized regular choir OF one hun
dred voices.
The first colored school OF Technology N
the United States was recently incorporated
at Birmingham, Ala, and was named after
the late ex-Congressman Robert Brown FL
liott OF South Carolina.
DIR. Daniel Williams, formerly OF this
city, has been appointed on the reception
committee OF the American Medical Associ-
alton, which meets In Chicago this week.
Father Tolton, the colored Catholic priest
of Quincy, ILL.,, was rendered a reception
at st. Mary's Church by the st. Augustine
Society Of Chicago.
There were but two delegates from
abroad who attended the colored irrational
convention" which met at indianapolis last
Wednesday; the other nine were residents
Of Indiana.
The Athletic, Osceola and Atlantic social
clubs Of South Washington had street
parade Monday, headed by the National
band. In the evening they gave union
picnic at Browns Park, Seventh and Boun-
Diary streets, which was largely attended.
The infant son Of Mr.. and Mrs. Reuben
s. Smith is lyiHg very Ill with cholera in
fantum.
Rev. +. j. Grimke left for his charge In
Jacksonville, Fla, the first of the week,
leaving his wife, who is In bad health, to
remain North and recuperate.
Mr.. Parker McGrundy has been ap.
pointed messenger to Superintendent Cook,
vice j. 7. Costen.
The Fifty-fourth and Fifty.ffth Massa-
cbusetts regiments OF colored volunteers
will bold q reunion AZ Boston on tho % day
| Of August. The Flfty-fourth was the first
colored regiment to enter the city Of
Charleston, S. c., during the war, and the
Fifty'ffih was noted for Its famous charge
| on Fort Wagner.